[Egypt] Mehemed Ali en deszelfs gebied

Door den schrijver der brieven eens afgestorvenen. (Prince Puckler Muskau). Opper-Egipte (and) Neder-Egipte. Amersfoort, W.J. van Bommel van Vloten, 1846, 2 volumes, VI,(2),325; VIII,310 p., both volumes with lithographed frontispiece (by Mehemed Ali and Ibrahim Pacha), original uniform printed cardboard, large 8vo.

Paper across spine of both volumes split, else a very good, unopened and uncut copy. The first Dutch edition, with which in 1847 appeared a third volume on Nubia and Sudan. The first (German) edition appeared in 1844. "Pückler Muskau is one of the most interesting travellers of his period; he journeyed extensively in Europe and Africa. He was a keen observer and sensitive writer, ready to note all sorts of facts and impressions of men and manners, although his great interest was landscape and landscape gardening." (Blackmer 1362). For more on Hermann von Pücker Muskau (1785-1871), see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann,_F%C3%BCrst_von_P%C3%BCckler-Muskau.